Reconstructing Quaternary EnvironmentsRoutledge, 28 oct. 2014 - 568 pages This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and geochemical data, and includes new data from terrestrial, marine and ice-core records. Dating methods are described and evaluated, while the principles and practices of Quaternary stratigraphy are also discussed. The volume concludes with a new chapter which considers some of the key questions about the nature, causes and consequences of global climatic and environmental change over a range of temporal scales. This synthesis builds on the methods and approaches described earlier in the book to show how a number of exciting ideas that have emerged over the last two decades are providing new insights into the operation of the global earth-ocean-atmosphere system, and are now central to many areas of contemporary Quaternary research. This comprehensive and dynamic textbook is richly illustrated throughout with full-colour figures and photographs. The book will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals in Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Geography, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Archaeology and Anthropology |
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... mass and temperature variations 4.9.3.3 Other palaeoenvironmental applications 4.10 Micropalaeontology of deep-sea sediments 4.10.1 Introduction 4.10.2 Radiolaria 4.10.3 Coccolithophores 4.10.4 Dinoflagellates (dinocysts) 4.10.5 Marine ...
... mass on a land surface 2.40 Crustal flexuring in the Pacific margin of Canada reflecting the changing mass of the last ice sheet in British Columbia 2.41 The development of a raised shoreline sequence reflecting isostatic recovery and ...
... mass 3.5 Schematic model of modes of deposition in proximal zones associated with continental and marine ice margins 3.6 Examples of glacigenic deposits that could be classified as lodgement, melt-out and possible 'flow' tills 3.7 ...
... Mass Spectrometer at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, UK 5.5 The exposed sample target wheel (ion source) of the AMS in Figure 5.4 5.6 Schematic diagram of the components of a tandem accelerator ...
... mass changes during DO cycles 7.23 Variations in concentration of terrestrial dust over the last 80 ka shown against δ18O variations, a proxy for temperature fluctuations, in the NGRIP ice core 7.24 Terrestrial dust flux and sea-level ...
Table des matières
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3 Lithological evidence | 93 |
4 Biological evidence | 181 |
5 Dating methods | 267 |
6 Approaches to Quaternary stratigraphy and correlation | 347 |
7 Global environmental change during the Quaternary | 379 |
References | 445 |
Index | 523 |
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments J. John Lowe,Mike Walker,Mike J. C. Walker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |